Teachers
influence and mold
students to become
either successful learners
or drop-outs. When
a teacher cares
about her job
she goes beyond
her already
busy schedule to
make sure her
students have the
needed support on
assignments.
She is willing
to help them
understand what is
been taught. Bad teachers
simply
care about entering
test scores at
the end of
the year and
not monitoring results
as the school
year runs. They care
about surviving another
day without the
proper
teachers. To them,
it is
another paycheck and it is of
high importance to
keep it
coming every payday
since it is
hard to find
a job now days. It
should be a
motivation to make
their jobs secure, but for the
amount that the district
pays, it is
not a motivation
to improve or
give their full
enthusiasm. In the film, American
Teacher, by Ninive
Calegari, it mentions how one third
of our teachers
have to get
a second job
in order to
make up for
the low pay
that they receive.
Knowing that
they are several
bad teachers in
schools, there are
no
standards to prevent
them from getting
a teaching job. Of course, they
have to
pass certain tests
and screening before
getting hired, but their
lack of support
for
the students and
parents is not
visible until several years
of working for
a school.
If the school
district is notified
of even a
school principal not
doing what is
right
to her students,
the district covers
it up by
saying there are
not enough funds
in
schools to help
them do their
jobs. They just don’t
see the effect
that they cause
the students.
They demoralize and humiliate
them
when they realize they
are 13 or
15 yrs old and
are not proficient in
basic math compared
to students in
richer
neighborhoods.
Even though
the school system
is aware of
the problems been
caused by a
teacher not doing
her job properly, they cannot
afford to get
rid of them. Who
else would cover
the gap of
this teacher? Who else
will take the spot that
has to
be filled to
make a school
exist? Someone has to
do it and
since their children
do not attend
this schools, they don’t
give a dime
about who teaches
those
innocent children.
I think
that the same
way that the
government interferes to
take
a child into
foster care after
finding that their
parents are neglecting
them, they
should do the same with
the teachers and
take the students
away from them. If
they don’t do so,
the damage will
be unbearable. They
should really hold
those
bad teachers liable
for the low
tests scores. What are
they not teaching
to make a
destructive path of
failure?
Funds should
not be an
excuse for a
teacher not to
do her job correctly.
The book, Savage Inequalities
has given an
example of a
parent volunteer that
brought her baby
to school in
order to volunteer. She decided
to do so
encouraged by the
teacher. The teacher said
to come help
and be a
part of her
son’s education and that
she
will hold the baby. There are
different ways of
raising money for
a school, but is it all
the parent’s responsibility? Shouldn’t the
government be providing
free education for
all? The school
districts should hold
flea markets or
big carnivals to
provide more funds
to poorly funded
schools.
They can ask
for help from
the major companies
within a city
to provide with
donations and school
materials. So far this
previously mentioned book
and my
research have in
common many things. One
of the major
similarities is that
the
schools that are
poorly funded are
the ones that
have the major
minority groups.
The children that
attend those schools
are the children
that have parents
that
struggle to provide
with the simpler
things like for
example a warm
breakfast
each morning and
clean comfortable clothes.
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